Richard Michael Blaberhttps://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/27/democratic-party-shaheen-coons-sullivan-trump-war-iran-state-of-the-union/. "Over the past weeks, the [US] has deployed the largest military force in the #MiddleEast in decades. Yet [Trump] offered only a few sentences about how Iran is building missiles that could strike the [US] (there’s no evidence... this is true); criticizing the Iranian government’s killing of protesters (he doesn’t care); & insisting that, to avoid war, the Iranian government must [promise]... it will never build a nuclear weapon (the Iranians have said this for years)."
"Avoiding debates about #legality is unfortunately typical of a #policy community that operates based on a built-in assumption that the [US] has a special #privilege to do #violence wherever & whenever it feels compelled to. If you want to understand the collapse of the so-called 'rules-based order,' look here. We’ve heard much lamenting from foreign-policy experts about the breakdown of this order." #Russia & #China are only imitating the very bad example of the #USA!
This is all about #domestic #legality - how about the #international variety, viz., the #UN Charter (Ch. VII), see: https://treaties.un.org/doc/publication/ctc/uncharter.pdf, @foreignpolicy? That's pretty much a dead letter, as far as #Trump & his minions are concerned.